Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us

Beer and Society explores the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the modern beer world, arguing that beer is more than just a beverage but a cultural product that reflects our identity, pleasure, camaraderie, and livelihood. It draws on sociological and psychological perspectives to show how beer reflects our society's roots, collective values, power structures, and inequities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society's collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.

Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us takes readers on a lively journey through the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the modern beer world. This book illustrates that beer is far more than a beverage. As a finely-crafted cultural product, beer can be a part of our identity, a source of pleasure and camaraderie, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who are behind the beer itself.

Drawing on leading sociological and psychological perspectives, the authors argue that our enduring relationship with beer reflects the very roots of our society, including its collective values and norms, power structures, and persistent inequities based on race, gender, sexuality, and social class. Beer and Society explores beer as an embodiment of who we are and a force to energize social change.

Weight: 345g
Dimension: 230 x 151 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666904352